No. 23 UCLA Ends Road Trip at No. 13 North Carolina on Sunday

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The No. 23 UCLA women’s basketball ends its season-opening road trip at No. 13 North Carolina on Nov. 16. Game time is slated for 11:00 a.m. (PT)/2:00 p.m. (ET). The game will not be televised, but you can hear UCLA's audio broadcast on this site and stream video on North Carolina's site (links provided below).

GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Carmichael Arena
Arena Capacity: 6,822
Date: Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014
Time: 11:00 a.m. (PT)/2:00 p.m. (ET)
Listen Online: www.uclabruins.com
Internet Audio: Dave Marcus (play-by-play)
Watch Online: Click here for live stream

UCLA MENTOR
Head Coach Cori Close is in her fourth year with the Bruins and guided UCLA to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a Pac-12 Tournament runner-up finish in 2012-13. She sports an overall record of 53-43 (.552).

NORTH CAROLINA SERIES HISTORY
The UCLA Bruins are 4-4 all-time against North Carolina, including 2-1 in games in Los Angeles. The Bruins began a home-and-home series for four straight years with an 82-71 overtime win on Dec. 30, 1985. Then UNC won 82-51 in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Dec. 18, 1986. The Bruins again won 82-71 on Dec. 31, 1987 in the John Wooden Center. But the Tar Heels evened the series with a 95-71 win at home on Dec. 18, 1988. The Bruins lost an overtime thriller, 82-78, in Chapel Hill on Dec. 18, 1997. Then UCLA won two straight meetings, both on neutral courts, leading up to last year’s 78-68 Tar Heel win in L.A. on Nov. 17, 2013. Allisha Gray had 30 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for UNC. Three Bruins had double-doubles in the game as Atonye Nyingifa posted 18 points and 11 rebounds, Nirra Fields had 12 points and 10 boards and Lauren Holiday added 10 points and 11 rebounds.

McDONALD'S ALL-AMERICANS
The UCLA women’s basketball team enters the 2014-15 season with a renewed optimism having signed the program’s first-ever No. 1 recruiting class in the country, featuring three McDonald’s All-Americans (Recee' Caldwell, Jordin Canada and Lajahna Drummer) and five newcomers all ranked in the Top 30 in the country (Kelli Hayesand Monique Billings are the other two standouts in the class). The three incoming McDonald’s selections will join another McDonald’s All-American, junior guard Nirra Fields, giving the Bruins four on the court for the first time in program history.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
UCLA is ranked No. 23 in both pre-season polls (AP and USA Today). The Bruins' 2014-15 schedule is loaded with nationally-ranked teams as a total of eight of them are in the pre-season Top 25 with another three programs receiving votes. The Bruins have four on the schedule that are ranked in the Top 10. Connecticut is No. 1, Notre Dame comes in at No. 3, Stanford is currently ranked No. 6 while Texas stands in 9th. Also on the Bruins' schedule is No. 13 North Carolina, No. 15 California, No. 16 Nebraska and No. 20 Oregon State. Three other teams on the Bruins' schedule (Oregon, Arizona State and James Madison) are receiving votes.

ON THE TUBE
The UCLA Bruins will be making a total of 19 television appearances (18 on the Pac-12 Networks and one on ESPN2) during the 2014-15 regular season. That is up one from the 2013-14 season. The Bruins had 14 in 2012-13 and just four during the 2011-12 campaign. Again this year, UCLA will have the distinction of having the first televised conference game when they travel to USC on Dec. 30, 2014 (6:00 p.m.).

PRESEASON PROJECTIONS
UCLA was selected to finish fourth in the Pac-12 conference’s preseason coaches and media polls.

OTHER RANKINGS
The Sporting News ranked UCLA at No. 5 in the country in its preseason college basketball magazine and collegsportsmadness.com has the Bruins in at No. 11 to start the season.

2014-15 SEASON TICKETS
Women’s basketball season tickets are on sale at the UCLA Central Ticket Office (310-UCLA-WIN). For more ticket information, or to buy tickets now, click here.